LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 18th June last, at the United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard, Admiral the EARL of SHREWSBURY and TALBOT, C.B., in the unavoidable absence of the DUKE of MARLBOBOUGH,...
Category: Meetings
The Medallists In Close-Up from Left to Right Shane Coleman George Williamson James Dougal Robert Gorman and Peter Heading
The medallists in close-up. From left to right Shane Coleman, George Williamson, James Dougal, Robert Gorman and Peter Heading.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fuchsia
On the 28th of the same month, the schooner Fuchsia, of Goole, from. Castlehill to South Shields, being in danger on a lee shore, with an E.N.E. gale blowing, the Life-boat proceeded off to her against a heavy sea, and succeeded in rescuing...
Ismene
RAMSGATE.—While a moderate gale was blowing from N.E., with a heavy sea, on the 26th Match, the smack Ismene, of Ramsgate, was seen in Pegwell Bay, burning flares for assistance. The Lifeboat Bradford proceeded out, in tow of the steam-tug...
R.N.L.I. Sends Irbs to Pakistan Disaster
It took the R.N.L.I, just 36 hours to find 20 inshore rescue boats with engines and spares for an airlift from Stansted, Essex, to Dacca to aid victims of the flood disaster in East Pakistan. The two volunteers were Lieutenant David Stogdon... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Try Again
Torbay, Devon. At 1.45 early on the morning of the 15th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a motor fishing boat had left Dartmouth a few hours earlier and had not returned. Further enquiries were being made...
Corinne
Dungeness, Kent. At 10.5 a.m. on 24th September, 1965, the yacht Corinne was reported aground at Camber. One of her crew of three had been seen to swim ashore. There was a moderate southsouth- westerly breeze with a choppy...
Incentive
MFV ashore RAMSEY COASTGUARD, Isle of Man, informed the honorary secretary of Port Erin lifeboat station at 0616 on Saturday, June 17 that the 70ft motor fishing vessel Incentive on passagefrom Whitehaven to Kilkeel with a crew of six aboard...
Lothian
Shortly after midnight on the 1st December the crew of the Lifa-boat Foster Fawcett were assembled in answer to signals from a vessel to the south of the Point. The boat was promptly launched and found the steam trawler Lothian, of Granton,...
C.H.S.
LlTTLEHAMPTON. At 1.50 A.M. OU the llth January, the Life-boat James, Mercer and Elizabeth was launched, signals of distress having been shown close to the West Pier, in a moderate S.W. gale and a heavy sea. It was found that the brigantine...